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Pucker vs Pleat - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between pucker and pleat

is that pucker is to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold while pleat is to form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.

As nouns the difference between pucker and pleat

is that pucker is a fold or wrinkle while pleat is a fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.

pucker

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
    • 1914' ''The conduct of the white strangers it was that caused him the greatest perturbation. He '''puckered his brows into a frown of deep thought.'' — Edgar Rice Burroughs, ''Tarzan of the Apes , Chapter 13.
    1893' ''He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and '''puckered like a withered apple. — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".

    Derived terms

    * pucker up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fold or wrinkle.
    • 1921' ''The mouth was compressed, and on either side of it two tiny wrinkles had formed themselves in her cheeks. An infinity of slightly malicious amusement lurked in those little folds, in the '''puckers about the half-closed eyes, in the eyes themselves, bright and laughing between the narrowed lids. — Aldous Huxley, ''Crome Yellow , Chapter 3.
  • A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
    • 1874' ''"What a '''pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me!"'' — Thomas Hardy, '' Far From the Madding Crowd.

    pleat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sewing) A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
  • (botany) A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.
  • A plait.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form one or more in a piece of fabric or a garment.

    • Derived terms

    * accordion pleat * box pleat * inverted box pleat * knife pleat * pencil pleat * sunburst pleat

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